ATI Radeon 8500 vs Tesla K8

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking454not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.96no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code nameGK104R200
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date16 September 2014 (10 years ago)14 August 2001 (23 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1536no data
Core clock speed693 MHz275 MHz
Boost clock speed811 MHzno data
Number of transistors3,540 million60 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt23 Watt
Texture fill rate103.82.200
Floating-point processing power2.491 TFLOPSno data
ROPs324
TMUs1288

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16AGP 4x
Length241 mmno data
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount8 GB64 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz275 MHz
Memory bandwidth160.0 GB/s8.8 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)8.1
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.61.4
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.1.126N/A
CUDA3.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 16 September 2014 14 August 2001
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 64 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 150 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 23 Watt

Tesla K8 has an age advantage of 13 years, a 12700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 435.7% more advanced lithography process.

ATI 8500, on the other hand, has 334.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Tesla K8 and Radeon 8500. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tesla K8 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon 8500 is a desktop one.


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